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Official Podcast of Grace Ottumwa

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Pastor Chris continues his series on “Knowing God, Knowing Self”. You won’t want to miss this message from Matthew 22.After the message from this passage, go to our Digital Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/graceottumwa to connect
If our faith is based on God’s love and grace, what is the role of obedience? What does obedience look like when we follow Jesus? Come this Sunday to hear Pastor Chris will share what Jesus says in John 15 about obedience. After the message f
How are your habits impacting your life? Have you thought about it lately?  It's surprising how once we've established a habit-- good or bad, how much it impacts our life. Is the impact of your habit drawing you closer to God and the life He h
How did we get so exhausted? And how do we find the rest that our souls are craving?After Pastor Chris’ message from Matthew 11:27-30, go to our Digital Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/graceottumwa to dive in deeper.You can ampl
You were made for more than just a comfortable life. You were made for a good life! According to Jesus, a good life involves more than a little discomfort.After Pastor Chris’ message from John 21:15-25, go to our Digital Community at https://
Do you enjoy comparing yourself to others? Or are you ready to be set free from the comparison trap?The comparison game seems fun at first, with a real opportunity to win! But if you’ve been playing for long enough, you know that nobody reall
Did you notice Jesus this week? If not, don’t be too hard on yourself. Jesus’ first followers didn’t recognize him either.After Pastor Chris’ message from John 21:1-14, go to our Digital Community at facebook.com/groups/265210934472228/ to div
What questions were you afraid to ask in church as a kid?What questions are you afraid to ask now?Countless people are walking away from their faith today.What if Jesus doesn’t want us to silence our questions?What if our silence is the pro
What are your self-limiting beliefs? What are the lies that hold you back from living the life you were created to live? Jesus’ disciples didn’t believe because they saw the empty tomb. They believed because they saw the empty grave clothes! As
Nicodemus left his midnight conversation with Jesus with guarded interest. Jesus offered him a different kind of religion that he hadn’t considered before. But what will happen when he tentatively steps into this new faith? Find out in this mes
What is the plan to re-launch the large in-person worship gatherings? God isn’t calling us to return to 2019. God is calling us to join God’s mission this year, next year, and on into the future. So we don’t settle for a trimmed-down version of
What’s next for Grace? What does it look like to faithfully follow God’s call to grow, serve, and love together as we put the virus behind us in just a few short months? Even more so than when we launched in 2019, we don’t all know one another.
Conversations about race are hard. Conversations about racism are even harder. Maybe that is what makes systemic racism so powerful - we can’t talk about it. We can’t name it. Because if we name it, we fear we could be accused of racism. So let
How does God think about race, color, culture, and language?  On December 18, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Sunday at 11AM as “The most segregated hour in this nation”. Nearly six decades later our schools are more diverse, our tr
We’ve had a hard year. Yes, we experienced surprise blessings, but it was also a hard year of isolation, stress, routine changes, and disappointed hopes. To dull the pain, many of us turned to snacking, shopping, and scrolling. After the moment
Before Nicodemus spoke with Jesus, it looked like he knew all the answers. Then Jesus turned those answers on their head. Don’t miss these three messages leading up to Easter, following the story of Niccodemus in the Gospel of John. Dive deeper
Have you heard Jeff Leonard’s adoption story? Do you know the path he took to meet his birth family? Through this special collaborative message between Jeff and Pastor Chris, we’ll get ready for our next step in making this year an unshakable y
Part of what made 2020 so hard is that we stopped seeing each other. We were so overwhelmed and so afraid that it became very difficult to truly see people close to us or far from us. It was as if they became translucent! In this message from M
What is the opposite of scarcity? In a fearful world, we are afraid that there is not enough. Until we receive the vaccine for this scarcity mindset,  we will continue to be shaken by every storm that passes by us in 2021. In 2021, we want to b
What is the first step in becoming unshakable? Be vulnerable. It sounds counterintuitive, right? The events of 2020 shook us to the core. As we enter this new year, we are preparing ourselves for whatever might come our way. To prepare for 2021
We entered this year thinking that we were unshakable. Then 2020 knocked us off our feet. Throughout the month of January, we will train our minds and our hearts to live an unshakable life no matter what happens in 2021. But it all starts with
In this year of ‘distancing’, we need the God who doesn’t distance. We need Christmas. We need Immanuel. We need ‘God with Us'. Today's message from Pastor Chris Childs is based upon Matthew 1:18-23.
“I’ve always disliked “Mary’s Song” at Christmas.” That’s what Pastor Chris first thought, when he considered preaching from this passage in 2020. Mary starts out, “My soul magnifies the Lord” and Pastor Chris says, “Oh boy. Another generic son
Why do we need Christmas in 2020? If Christmas is about shopping sprees and family gatherings, and those just aren’t the same this year, why don’t we just skip the holiday? Of course, Christmas is about so much more than that. If there has ever
“But what does serving on a team have to do with following Jesus?" For the past two weeks, we’ve heard about the importance of serving on a team. But what does that mean practically, and is it really necessary? Prepare for the final sermon in t
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